Thought Leader Liaison - UPLIZNA - Mid- South; Rare Disease

Position: Thought Leader Liaison - UPLIZNA - Mid- South (Rare Disease)
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** Career Category
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** Job Description
** Territory covers:
Nashville, TN, New Orleans, LA, Little Rock, AKIf you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide.

It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
** Thought Leader Liaison
-Mid-South
**** Live
* *** What you will do
** Let’s do this. Let’s change the world! This critical role is a customer-facing role responsible for executing the customer aspects of the Neuroimmunology Business Unit’s peer to peer strategies and building productive relationships with speakers, thought leaders and other key influencers from key accounts in their assigned geography.  The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) is responsible for compliantly liaising with Sales, Site of Care, and Medical Affairs to address customer needs, identify/initiate appropriate projects of mutual interest to Amgen and customers, anticipate market trends, and uncover competitive intelligence, ensuring delivery against the Business Unit objectives.

The TLL will align across the Amgen organization to coordinate thought leader interactions and deliver a cohesive customer experience.
** Responsibilities:
*** Significant customer-facing time, building relationships with existing and new thought leaders for involvement in current and future commercial activities
* Creates local peer to peer strategies in coordination with national and regional strategic marketing and sales business plans.
* Liaise with sales and marketing to ensure thought leader concerns/needs are addressed in a timely and thorough manner
* Collaborates closely with the Amgen advocacy team to develop relationships with key physician and patient organizations
* Creates and executes short term and long-term KOL engagement plans.
* Captures, synthesizes and shares key thought leader insights to help shape brand strategy and prepare for future life cycle management and competitor entry into the marketplace
* Identifies evidence gaps across product and disease education through appropriate thought leader discussions and podium observations.
* Disseminate thought leader insights to broader Amgen stakeholders, including marketing, sales, market access to drive development of new strategies and tactical approaches and to ensure a comprehensive view of market trends is integrated into overall planning
* Coordinate leadership interactions at all assigned national/regional, state society conferences
* Initiates and pursues opportunities to involve Amgen in meaningful programs with thought leaders to ensure Amgen is strategically and strongly positioned in the market
* Assists with speaker events, including selection of speakers, training for speakers and reviewing current speaker programs ensuring consistent messaging and compliant execution
* Collaborates with marketing team on peer to peer programs including speaker training programs and contributes to ongoing refinement of U.S. speaker bureau
* Contributes to content development by providing customer insight and perspective, increasing program impact & relevance
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* *** What we expect of you
** We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The marketing professional we seek is a collaborative partner with these qualifications.
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* Basic Qualifications:

** Doctorate degree and 2 years of marketing or sales experience

OrMaster's degree and 4 years of marketing or sales experience

Or Bachelor's degree and 6 years of marketing or sales experience

Or Associates degree and 10 years of marketing or sales experience

OrHigh school diploma / GED and 12 years of marketing or sales experience
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* Preferred Qualifications:

*** Customer facing pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience (field sales, product marketing, medical or clinical experience in the same or related therapeutic area) is required
* Experience in the neurology,…